...cane. Has not Mr. Pope, our great poet of fashion, given you the nicest instructions in that art ? " Sir Plume, of amber snuff.box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane." The cane does not conduct you ; you conduct the cane. Thus, with a debonnair swing. Now, t'other hand...

...grown; Judge-like thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign, The flying skirmish of the darted cane. Dryden. Sir Plume of amber snuff-box, justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Pope. And the sweet liquor on the cane bestow, From which prepared the luscious sugars flow. Blackmore....

...cane. Has not Mr. Pope our great poet of fashion, given you the nicest instructions in that art ? ' Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.' The cane does not conduct you ; you conduct the cane. Thus, with a debonnair swing. Now, t'other hand...

...Rape of the Lock notes the use of the Snuff-box as a luxurious appendage to the ban ton '• — " Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the...face, He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case." This nobleman's habit of " tapping the box," in the pauses of his speech, is very characteristic of...

...purposes of accomplished gesticulation. One of the most courtly personages in the Rape of the Lock is Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Sir Richard Steele, as we have before noticed, is reproached by a busy-body of those times for a habit...

...sea, to chaos fall, Men, monkeys, lapdogs, parrots, perish all ! She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs...snuff-box open'd, then the case, And thus broke out — " 'Tis past a jest — nay, pox ! Give her the hair" — he spoke, and rapp'd his box. It grieves...

...THE RAPE OP THE LOCK." Sir Plume demands the restoration of the lock. " (Sir Plume of amber snuff box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane)...earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuff box open'd, then the case. ****** It grieves me much (replied the Peer again) Who speaks so well,...

...represented as holding the lock of hair in his hand. Sir Plume — the round-faced and insignificant Sir Plume, Of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane," — As this little story was intended to be viewed on gold, the figures in the copy are not reversed,...

...extravagant prices. In other countries the orange-yellow transparent variety is decidedly preferred. ", Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded« cane :" POP«, Rape ojthe iMck. In the Museum of Mineralogy in Paris there is the handle of a cane made...